"If you ask: What is the good..." - Quote by Plato

“This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.”

“The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that technical ability alone was enough to make an artist... what that man creates by means of reason will pale before the art of inspired beings.”

“The truth is that we isolate a particular kind of love and appropriate it for the name of love, which really belongs to a wider whole.”

“The average schoolmaster is, and always must be, an ass.”

“Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves.”

“Common sense without education, is better than education without common sense.”

“When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly.”

“Bear in mind that the measure of a man is the worth of the things he cares about. If it is good to say or do something, then it is even better to be criticized for having said or done it.”

“It is not so important that many should be good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump.”